SoonerCon

[j_cheney]

I'm still living in my post-con exhaustion world. (And I have to socialize tonight, which stinks). On the other hand, unlike the last con I went to which wrung me out and left me too disgusted to write for a week or so, I came out of this one wanting to write.

Not today mind you, I'm too tired. But I'm rared up good for the next few months.

Not the panels. Not the fans. Certainly not the two goofy guys who kept lecturing the people at the panels...and the panelists (once even when a panelist was speaking). Not the fourth-grader who told me that J.K. Rowling only got published in the first place because she gave the editor of Rolling Stone a six-pack of beer (although that is a handy thing to know).

No, the other writers there made me feel like coming home and typing (once I've rested). They were all so friendly and nice even though I wasn't on any of the panels.

I actually got to talk for some time with one of my writing idols, marthawells, hung out with the marvelously welcoming bev_hale, didn't get to talk enough with reudaly, my fellow ra_log maintainer. And there was rachelcaine and Kathi Kimbriel, and sewedel and Craig Wolf and aelle33 whom I haven't seen in a while. There were a ton of marvelous people there.

I definitely decided I should ask to be put on some panels next time I go to one of these things, because I discovered I would certainly not be the least published....

Comments

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

What panels do you think you'd like to be on? I'd think that would be a very surreal experience.

I've been lucky with the few cons I've gone to that there were wonderful audiences. Weird goofy guys, for sure; as if people care what they think. They should ask my sister to go, she'll tell them to shut up LOL

How cool that you're all charged up to write, though! That's the main thing, the great thing about conventions. Too bad about the one before, though, too bad! What happened?--otoh, never mind, as it's better not to think about it *g*

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

At Conestoga, I asked to be on blogging, rejection, and WOTF panels....probably the things I know about.